"sobersides," as Mary Bertram sometimes called their graver discussions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School] Reference

After the wheel is mounted, it is better to turn it quite true by means of a watch-maker's "graver" or other suitable tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

Amplification, then, is a kind of graver affirmation, which by exciting feelings in the mind conciliates belief to one's assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

Fox, then a 'graver's apprentice, to return with him to America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850] Reference

After various compliments, she took a graver tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference

It was graver: it was a state of the body and of the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

These oppressions have become graver in the last few years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian D. Lepard: Was the Sentencing of Iranian Bahá'í Leaders the Result of Longstanding Religious Prejudice?] Reference

"I do mean it, indeed!" said Cuthbert, in a much graver tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

Now it seems that the problem is far graver than anyone thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bigger Hole In The Ozone] Reference

If she does not recognize you, her condition is graver than I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"You may chance to lose it on a graver count than this;" answered the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

It is hard to pinpoint a graver indictment of the government's failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chilcot inquiry: Iraq expert Carne Ross claims civil servants are withholding vital documents] Reference

A wind, if of appreciable strength, develops another and graver danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

The Haitian dilemma awaiting Bill Clinton maybe graver than first reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flotilla In Waiting] Reference

It is a far graver issue of refusing to fuel bin Laden's propaganda machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Smucker: Newt and Nazis: Aiding and Abetting bin Laden] Reference

With 'Hard Times' and 'A Tale of Two Cities 'Dickens has struck a graver note.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

This is a far graver threat to Jews than a film director's intemperate remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Levine: Casting Stones at Oliver Stone] Reference

Then, her face growing graver, "she won't be long in making that discovery now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

It made him the matchless story-teller, and gave sublimity to his graver addresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Noll's face grew graver and graver, and he made no reply to his uncle's last remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

I am daily subjecting myself to laboratory dangers which, I believe, are graver than any.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

"Yes, seriously, I should," said Janetta, her face growing graver, and her eyes lighting up.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

It is a graver thing than it sometimes appears to the young people to engage in such compacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

It would at least relieve my mind with regard to graver things; however unpleasant the absence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference

A similar coincidence, far graver in its first suggestion, has been given me by Mr. Arnold-Forster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

For Austrians, a collapse of the coalition could mean an even graver prospect: Haider as chancellor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austria's Power Player] Reference

Only the graver, self-reproachful expression or radiant smile betrayed the feelings of the listener.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894] Reference

(While he seems to have been careless with some fact-checking, he's rebutted the graver accusations.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Killer in the House] Reference

He then began the tedious process of outlining it by hand with a graver and afterward finished it with a chisel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

In the drama of modern history, one knows not any graver, more note-worthy scene; earnest as very death and judgment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

The reporter developed rapidly into the more serious workman, and amongst the graver business was that of war correspondent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference